Heading to the Melbourne Writers Festival? Then why not write something yourself – this year’s program includes an array of international speakers and recently graduated former upstart editor, Tom Cowie, as well as several La Trobe Journalism staff.

Lawrie Zion wants the election postponed for a week, so we can instead vote for another debate about debates.

While the political spotlight’s been shining on the Prime Ministerial contest, Lawrie Zion has moved forward to consider who might lead the Opposition after the upcoming election.

With less than two weeks to go until the election, Lawrie Zion examines the impact of yet another former Labor leader intervening in Julia Gillard’s campaign.

Lawrie Zion reckons we need a few international candidates to get this election campaign moving forward.

Upstart editors, past and present, are spreading their words across a range of media outlets. Lawrie Zion reports, ahead of embarking on his own mid-year mission.

Could Google help revive the economic fortunes of journalism? The Atlantic’s James Fallows argues there’s grounds for optimism, and Lawrie Zion has added his recent cover story on the subject to our ’100 articles’ list.

Upstart’s ’100 articles every journalist should read about journalism’ project is the subject of an article in the British online publication, Journalism.co.uk.

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In the second episode of upcast we talk to La Trobe’s digital media officer Matt Smith about his ‘bucket list’ and to Lawrie Zion about the upcoming sports journalism symposium on April 8.